Jul 24, 2026 08:16 AM IST What PM Modi said in midnight video message to protesters Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a late-night broadcast video said that a tough new law on paper leak was on its way.
He said he had received its draft and it would be discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet Friday.
In the video, PM Modi said, “Friends, I am well aware that the issue of paper leaks is not a small matter.
It causes immense distress to lakhs of students and their parents.
Consequently, numerous measures have been taken over the past two-and-a-half months following these incidents, and the culprits have been apprehended and are currently in jail.” “Our primary responsibility was to ensure that the students did not lose an academic year; conducting the examinations promptly was crucial.
The government mobilised all its resources to arrange for the exams of 22 lakh students to be held in the shortest possible time, and the results were declared just five or six days ago, on the 19th (of July).
While news of the success and happiness of students across the country is coming in, we are not the kind of people to simply rest content with that.
That is why I instructed the departments concerned today regarding the establishment of fast-track courts,” he said.
More strict actions against paper leaks to come in tomorrow’s Cabinet! pic.twitter.com/NRysBukk5U — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 23, 2026
